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-rwxr-xr-xconfigure14
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 92b6710f..65411956 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -115,17 +115,17 @@ package names may be different, (such as "devel" in place of "dev").
EOF
if [ $have_pkg_config -eq 0 ]; then
cat <<EOF
-Note: the pkg-config program is not available. Both this configure
-script and the Makefile of notmuch use pkg-config to find the
-compilation flags required to link against the various libraries
-needed by notmuch. It's possible you simply need to install pkg-config
-with a command such as:
+Note: the pkg-config program is not available. This configure script
+uses pkg-config to find the compilation flags required to link against
+the various libraries needed by notmuch. It's possible you simply need
+to install pkg-config with a command such as:
sudo apt-get install pkg-config
But if pkg-config is not available for your system, then you will need
-to manually edit the notmuch Makefile to set the variables such as
-CFLAGS and LDFLAGS to the correct values without calling pkg-config.
+to modify the configure script to manually set the cflags and ldflags
+variables to the correct values to link against each library in each
+case that pkg-config could not be used to determine those values.
EOF
fi